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DEVI GE FOR REELING SILK FROM THE GOGOON. No. 317,222. Patented May 5,1885.

U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD W. SERRELL, JR, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DEVICE FOR REELING SILK FROM THE COCOON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,222, dated May 5,1885.

Application filed February 27, 1884. (No model.) 7

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD W. SERRELL, Jr., of the city, county, andState of New York, United States of America, but temporarily residing atOhabenil,in the Department of Drome, Republic of France, have invented acertain new and useful Improvement in Devices for Reeling Silk from theCocoon, of which the following is a specification.

In silk-reeling machinery it is usual to pass several of the filamentsfrom the cocoons through a perforated or notched guide usually known asthe agate, on account of being made of a hard substance, such as agate.In this the filaments come together and adhere to each other.

My invention consists in a device for preventing lumps or bunches offilaments and also the chrysalides in expended cocoons from jumping outof the water of the basins and passing into the thread as it runsthrough an agate or filamentattaching device. For this purpose I employa disk or surface of fibrous material, preferably of leather,interposedbetween the water of a basin and the agate or filament-attaching devicein such a manner that each filament of cocoon passes over the edge ofsaid disk on its way from the cocoon to the thread. I prefer to make thedevice in the form of a mobile disk, of leather, with serrated edges, asshown in the drawings, and for the purpose of preventing the filamentsfrom getting out at the bases of the teeth or serrations of the disk Iprefer to employ a circular guide, as shown in the drawings.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the circular guide and its support andthe agate and a part of the water-holding vessel in section,and Fig. 2is a plan of the disk and circular guide.

The disk of leather L, as shown, is carried upon a center or cap, 0, insuch a manner as in practice that when this occurs the filament is aptto become broken.

The operation of the device is extremely long as the latter is clean orfree from bunches or entangled masses, but any small imperfections whichpresent themselves are caught in the fibrous leather and prevented frompassing. The disk, being free to oscillate on its bearing, yields to anysudden strain brought upon the filaments, and does not break them, as itwould do if fixed,and bunches of silk are held until the filament ispulled off or else the filament is broken.

I am aware that disks of metal, porcelain, and other substances not of afibrous nature have been employed between the cocoons and agate toprevent the passage of expended cocoons or bunches into the thread, andtherefore do not claim such disks, broadly. I am also aware thatcleaning devices consisting of surfaces covered with felt, leather, &c.,are employed in throwing silk to catch bunches and imperfectionsexisting in the thread. I do not claim such as my invention; but

What I do clai1n,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with the water-vessel and agate for the filament, ofa guide of fibrous material for the silk in its passage from the cocoonto the agate for catching imperfections, substantially in the manner andfor the purpose hereinbefore set forth.

2. The combination, with the water-vessel and agate for the fila1nent,ofa notched guide of fibrous material and a plain guide for insuring theproper positions of the filaments, substantially in the manner and forthe purpose hereinbefore set forth.

EDW. W. SERRELL, JR.

I/Vitnesses:

EDWARD P. MAOLEAN, CHARLES T. THIRION.

